A native of Miami, Florida, Shonda Cheekes got her start in the publishing industry as a freelance publicist in 1997. Her novels include Another Man’s Wife, In the Midst of It All, and Decoys, Inc., along with two short stories: “Lessons Learned,” featured in Zane’s Blackgentlemen.com, and “Silent Suffering,” featured in Zane’s Breaking The Cycle, winner of the 2006 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Shonda now resides in the Metro Atlanta area with her husband and two children.